#993 - Ben Shapiro

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Do we have enough left for tomorrow? We don't have tomorrow. Good. I'll bring it in this week.

Ben Shapiro, we are live. The people have spoken.

Ben Shapiro (0:10)

Well, thank you for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Thanks for being here, man. I became a fan of yours when I watched you, what the fuck is his name? The CNN asshole.

Ben Shapiro (0:19)

Oh, Piers Morgan.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Oh, that was glorious.

When you went after him with the Sandy Hook thing, like right away, immediately, it was just glorious. And you could tell that he didn't know what to do with it. And he literally said, how dare you? Which is what I say to people all the time when I'm joking. I say, how dare you?

Ben Shapiro (0:36)

Exactly.

As one of my friends said, it looked like he was clutching his pearls. He was really pissed. I'm sure he was. It was a two-segment interview, and during the break, I said to him, thanks so much for having me on. He kind of growled at me. He was not a happy camper.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

Yeah. Well, you crushed him, and one of my other favorite ones was Chelsea Handler crushing him, where she was literally talking like, you don't even talk to me in the break. In the break, you're checking your phone and checking Twitter, and you could tell he was like, oh, no.

He just came from that weird British tabloid environment, and you found out that the company that he worked for did really creepy shit, like check people's voicemails. They hacked into people who were dead, and they gave the family hope because they had checked the voicemail, and they found out that someone checked in. They thought, oh, maybe she's still alive.

Ben Shapiro (1:21)

And then we made him a host on The X Factor and brought him on CNN.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

It is awesome.

Ben Shapiro (1:25)

Good to make decisions all around.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

I just don't understand why CNN thought that. We have this fascination with British people.

Ben Shapiro (1:31)

Yes. If you have a British accent, we automatically add 20 points to your IQ.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

Yeah, they're great for selling mops late night and non-stick cookware.

And I enjoy John Oliver. I think John Oliver is great. And apparently he has, you know, a lot of people think of all British accents as being the same, but he has like a blue collar British accent. But I don't.

Ben Shapiro (1:53)

I can't tell the difference too much, except when I'm watching My Fair Lady or something.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Well, I could tell people from like Manchester and stuff like that, because they have like the sort of like way of talking so fast that all the words kind of pile into each other.

But yeah, Oliver's, his recent one, Eddie Bravo got really mad at it. The recent one about Alex Jones is fucking hilarious. I don't know if you've seen it.

Ben Shapiro (2:17)

It's almost impossible to make something not funny about Alex Jones.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

You got to meet Alex. Have you met him?

Ben Shapiro (2:22)

I don't know that, given how much I've made fun of him.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Oh, it'd be fine.

Ben Shapiro (2:26)

Trust me. He wouldn't like to strip off his shirt and start...

Joe Rogan (2:30)

He might, but he'd calm down. You're a good guy. We're basically on the same team.

He would come around.

Ben Shapiro (2:37)

If you remember, the Piers Morgan thing happened two nights after Alex was on Piers Morgan. So Piers was like flying high because he had that whole debate with Alex and Alex did his shtick and it was really over the top. And he thought I was going to be like Alex Jones part two and it was going to be Piers succeeds again and Alex and I could not be more different in our approaches.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

No, you're very rational and very reasonable. And we've been talking about some of your debates.

There's not a lot of guys like you out there, which is really interesting. It's like you're a fast thinking, fast talking, very smart young guy who's also a conservative.

There's not a lot of those out there. And this is one of the things that we're encountering today is there, especially in college campuses, there's this very strange separation between the left and the right to the point where the right is almost non-existent, or at least doesn't have any representation. And they're actively shunning that representation. They're pushing people out. And I know what's going on with you and Berkeley. Has that been resolved?